Well I must have done something right. Cryptozoic sent me the Locke & Key card game today. And I opened it. And filmed myself doing it too. Welcome to the new Locke & Key unboxing event…
Why The Hell Isn’t There A My Little Pony Comic Book?
Aaron and Mike of A Comic Show want to help fix what’s wrong with the comics industry, they swear they’ll start a regular bombastic op/ed column here on Bleeding Cool. But first, they feel they must follow their hearts (hooves), and use their connections to get a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic made!…
Jim Lee’s Hidden Tribute To Carla
Awwwww… Jim Lee finished the most recent issue of Justice League #5 just before his new child was born, and while his wife Carla was rather heavily pregnant. He’s written that the new arrival held out until he’d finished his deadline, which was appreciated by all, I’m sure. But what tribute could Jim Lee make…
The First Page Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Revealed At Angoulême
We know from the publicity that DC Vertigo are publishing graphic novel adaptaions of the Millenium Trilogy, with Denise Mina and Leonardo Manco adapting the first book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo into two parts. And in April they’ll be publishing a free teaser of the first graphic novel. But Bleeding Cool (alone it…
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Zuda Abandons Competitive Element
Rob Perazza, editor of DC Comic’s digital offering under the Zuda banner, has announced that Zuda is abandoning the competition aspect to its choice of future digital comic projects. Forming some kind of Comic Book Idol, readers vote on their favourite new strips every month, the winner getting a Zuda contract and continuing the publication…
Kevin Smith Voices Free Comic Book Day Ad – Pass It On
Kevin Smith has provided a voiceover for the last-minute Free Comic Book Day ad above. Do feel free to retweet, facebook, blog, report or simply spam the video in question around to everyone you know. Go on, annoy them just one more time… Free Comic Book Day is running across the world tomorrow, with all…
Expensive Comic Book Day…
eBay are launching a special-themed Comic Book Superhero auction to celebrate something of other, with a bunch of sixties CGC comics, recent sketch variant covers, and a statue or two. And you can add your own items to the list if you can work out how. Everything starts at either 99c or $99 – although…
Short ‘n Curlies #38 by Si Spurrier
The Keyboard Continues To Be My FuckMonkey: COMICS! Convention season, I’m reliably informed, is In Full Swing. Here then is a ludicrously tangential Brainmake intended to Explain A Few Things about the types of people — specifically Industry Professionals — you might meet at these crawling, swarming, cosplay anthills; and why they’re The Way They…
Free Comic Book Day Runaround
Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. An event where oodles of free comics will be given away from oodles of publishers in oodles of stores. So what else is going on? And how are stores whipping up publicity? New York Daily News looks at their state – - Jim Hanley’s Universe in Manhattan (4 W….
The Look Of Thor – First Photo
Bleeding Cool contributor Alasdair Stuart conducts a thortopsy… So that’s what a God of Thunder looks like. After Latino Review’s leaked picture of The Destroyer, Paramount appear to have decided to make it official with the first shot not only from the film, but of Thor himself. Looks rather good doesn’t he? My first response…
FCBD: War Of Superman/Tiny Titans Double Bill
Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. I’m planning a special Bleeding Cool surprise in an hour or two, but for now here’s a preview of DC’s offerings, from War Of The Supermen #0 and Tiny Titans from the DC Mega Kids Sampler. Both free. Both out tomorrow. It’s free comics, what’s not to love. And…
Preview: House Of Mystery #25 from Vertigo
A writer begins a story. Then another takes it on. This is an Exquisite Corpse, Vertigo style as House Of Mystery is written by Bill Willingham, Dave Justus, Paul Levitz, Alisa Kwitney and regular writer Matt Sturges. And below you can read the first page of each writer’s section of the story, all drawn by…
From Lion To Party Puffin – Four Lions Reviewed
“You cannot win an argument just by being right” Four Lions is a comedy about Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. If that sentence fills you will utter repulsion, then you won’t be able to sit through the first five minutes. But by the sound of it you probably should. Chris Morris has a history of being on…
Funnyman – From The Creators Of Superman
I’ve never read a Funnyman comic. A line, tucked away in biographical piece about Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, what they did after Superman and Superboy that never achieved similar success, six issues and a year long newspaper strip, they would never work again and this marks the beginning of their decline into living on…
Friday Runaround: Trailing Jonah Hex
HexWatch: The new Jonah Hex trailer hits the intraweb. MadibaWatch: An unauthorised biography of Nelson Mandela in comic form has won Best Book For Older Readers in the Children’s Africana Book Awards in America. AwardWatch: Neil Gaiman has been granted the Kurt Vonnegut Literary Award, something which he accepted as part of National Library Week….
Ed Brubaker And Sean Phillips’ Incognito Picked Up By 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox have acquired the rights to turn Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ 2009 Incognito series for Marvel Comics into a movie, telling a story of a supervillain turned supergrass who is put through the witness protection system and his powers removed. Until he discovers that taking drugs starts to bring them back again…
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New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier?
Below you’ll see a photo of a poster, hanging on a bus shelter. It was taken by Little Bleeder Ian, who wondered: I don’t know if this is genuine viral marketing or just a bunch of students. You can see a #believeinsherlock hashtag on the bottom right hand corner. I went to Twitter and searched…
Frank Miller Redraws The Dark Knight
The above is a commission by Frank Miller, recreating the splash page from The Dark Knight, below, for one Felix Lu. Such a detailed commission from Miller, it would be quite a rarity these days and rather expensive. Albeit not quite as expensive as buying the original art, recently selling for almost half a million…
The Amazing Spider-Man Is Tidied Up A Little By An Official Blurb
Here’s an orderly and dependable plot blurb for The Amazing Spider-Man, as issued by Sony and piling up across the net (and in my inbox) like wildfire right now. There may not be any bombshells in here, but the strands come together pretty clearly. You know – like a web. The Amazing Spider-Man is the…
Joe Madureira Wants To Draw A Zelda Comic Series
The last time I remember reading a Legend Of Zelda comic was back in the nineties, from Valiant Comics before they decided to move into superheroes. There’s were also a few manga books tied into specific game releases but no US licenced comics for quite some time. This could change if Joe Madueira gets his…
The Robins – A New Comic From Jeff Lemire?
He’s done gangbusters for DC Comics, taking C-list character Animal Man, whose return to the DC Universe from DC Vertigo had been lacklustre at best, and turned him into a surprise critical and commercial hit as part of the DC New 52. So it’s only natural that DC might tap him for any other bright…
Warner Bros. Nix ElfQuest Movie, Pin Blame On The Hobbit
I would assume that the success of The Lord of the Rings and the huge interest in The Hobbit, not to mention the extraordinary, eight-film success of the Harry Potter series, would encourage Warner Bros. to look seriously into all of their similar options, but the studio has not to move ahead with a long-developing…
